GCSE Physical Education

Practice papers with model solutions

Original practice sets for GCSE Physical Education, drawn from our own question bank. Each has a stable link, a printable PDF and a full worked mark scheme.

GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Paper 1

Covers The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System and Effects of Exercise and 9 more.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Paper 2

Covers The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System and Effects of Exercise and 9 more.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Paper 3

Covers The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System and Effects of Exercise and 9 more.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Paper 4

Covers The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System and Effects of Exercise and 9 more.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Short Paper A

Covers The Skeletal System, The Muscular System, The Cardiorespiratory System and Effects of Exercise and 3 more.

10 questions - 40 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Grades 1-9

GCSE Physical Education Short Paper B

Covers Training Methods and Fitness Testing Data, Classification of Skill and Guidance, Arousal, Goal Setting and Mental Preparation and 3 more.

10 questions - 40 marks

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Papers scoped to what has been taught

The papers above are scoped by grade band. These are scoped by teaching point instead: each one leaves out content a student at that stage has not met yet, so a mock in the middle of the course tests what has actually been covered.

These bands are a typical teaching order, not a syllabus rule. No exam board defines what belongs to Year 10, and schools sequence the course differently. Check the split against your own scheme of work before using it to decide what a class has covered. Unlike the AS/A2 split, GCSE PE's specification does not say which topics must be covered by the end of Year 10 - this is a scheme-of-work convention that genuinely varies from school to school and even teacher to teacher. Plenty of centres teach socio-cultural influences or sport psychology before finishing physical training, or spread both exam papers across both years instead of blocking Year 10 around one component. I'm least confident about training-methods-data: some schools push use-of-data content into Year 11 alongside exam-skills revision rather than teaching it right after principles of training, so a given school may not have reached it by the end of Year 10. Treat this split as a reasonable default for generating a Year 10 paper, not a description of what any particular school has actually taught by that point.

Year 10

GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 1: Body Systems and Training Basics

Covers the skeletal, muscular and cardiorespiratory systems, plus the components of fitness, principles of training and fitness testing data that make up physical training.

18 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 2: Muscles, Movement and Training Principles

Covers the muscular and cardiorespiratory systems, movement analysis (levers, planes and axes), and the components of fitness and principles of training.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 3: Skeleton, Circulation and Training Methods

Covers the skeletal system, the cardiorespiratory system, movement analysis, and how training is planned and tested using fitness data.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 4: Skeleton, Muscles and Fitness Testing

Covers the skeletal and muscular systems, movement analysis, and the components of fitness measured through fitness testing data.

18 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 5: Physical Training Focus

Covers the muscular and cardiorespiratory systems and movement analysis alongside the three physical training topics: components of fitness, training principles and fitness testing data.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 6: Full Year 10 Review

Covers every Year 10 topic: the skeletal, muscular and cardiorespiratory systems, movement analysis, and all three physical training topics.

24 questions - 100 marks

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Year 11

GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 1: Psychology, Health and Society

Covers skill classification, arousal and mental preparation, health and well-being, diet and nutrition, socio-cultural influences on participation, and the muscular system.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 2: Body Systems, Fitness Testing and Society

Covers the skeletal system, the cardiorespiratory system, movement analysis, components of fitness and fitness testing data, and socio-cultural influences on participation.

14 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 3: Training, Health and the Mind

Covers the muscular system, all three physical training topics, mental preparation, and health, fitness, diet and nutrition.

20 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 4: Movement, Skill and Wellbeing

Covers the skeletal and muscular systems, movement analysis, principles of training, classification of skill, health and well-being, and socio-cultural influences on participation.

19 questions - 80 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 5: Fitness, Diet and Mental Preparation

Covers the cardiorespiratory system, components of fitness and fitness testing data, mental preparation, diet and nutrition, and socio-cultural influences on participation.

15 questions - 60 marks

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GCSE Physical Education - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 6: Full Course Review

Covers a broad spread of topics from across both years: the skeletal and cardiorespiratory systems, training principles and fitness testing data, skill classification, mental preparation, health and well-being, and socio-cultural influences.

24 questions - 100 marks

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